French soldiers Guard Zeppelin Balloon, Luneville – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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French soldiers Guard Zeppelin Balloon, Luneville
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A guarded Zeppelin at Lunéville, a town in Lorraine in northeastern France, is the particular subject here: French soldiers stand watch over an airship at a time when such craft were closely watched. The record gives no date, but the Bain News Service, which produced this glass negative, worked mainly in the early twentieth century, and the scene suggests the First World War, when the French military guarded captured or enemy aircraft and their hangars. Zeppelins were rigid airships designed in Germany, so their presence in French custody would have been a notable wartime development. The title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact circumstances should be treated with some caution.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,741 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40605 |
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